Sharkey's Shootout's main toy, the Mystery eightball. It's a magnetic diverter that take a ball from the left ramp and diverts it to left or right. It can also hold the ball, while the mystery feature is running. It has a rotating disc inside with a decoder ring for opto switches so it knows which way it's pointing. During the gameplay it shows you the prize you won in the same fashion as the magic eightball toy.

#pinball #90spinball #mechanism

Denial isn’t always a conscious lie. In psychology, it’s a defense mechanism used to avoid emotional overwhelm. When faced with something threatening — like a breach that could cost money, reputation, or jobs — leaders and teams may retreat into cognitive distortions:
— ‘It’s probably...

https://medium.com/@mrsno1special/the-psychology-of-denial-in-breaches-acb29e4d888f

# #denial #always #conscious #defense #mechanism

iridescent mechanism

#Teal #Blue #Purple #Pink #Gold #Iridescent #Mechanism #Tech #Futuristic #Metallic #SciFi #Folded
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

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Mechanism are doing a Spring Sale for their Steam Deck accessories https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/mechanism-are-doing-a-spring-sale-for-their-steam-deck-accessories/

#SteamDeck #Mechanism #Deckmate

Big Guns' backbox bagatelle game sounded somehow off. I investigated and sure enough, all 4 bolts that hold the upkicker mechanism onto the light panel were loose, with two nuts missing completely.

After some cabinet bottom searching and Loctite later it works and sounds as it should.

#pinball #arcade #pinrepair #mechanism #retrotech

The old and the new #mechanism - part 2
- Explanation attempts for the understanding of the #reductionistic and #positivistic world view -

In this 2nd part of the article, in my opinion, the #complexity of #biological #systems is taken into account and in this respect the #mereological #fallacy in the old #mechanistic #world #view, that the whole is always more than the sum of its parts, is referred to as a #construction #error in #reductionism.

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/01/07/der-alte-und-der-neue-mechanismus-2/

The old and the new #mechanism - explanatory attempts to understand #Descartes' #mechanistic #worldview

- Part 1

The article published on my site was kindly provided by Dr. Gregorio Demarchi from the Institute of #Philosophy of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena for publication on my site.

More on: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/13/der-alte-und-der-neue-mechanismus-1/